Banshee

It's a choppa.
Quick, get to the choppa... er, I mean Banshee.

 

the banshee was made because the terren had no air to ground devastating attack unit. sure they had the battlecruser but the $$ was too much and hydras can pwn it.

 

Yeah it's kind of sad how easy Hydralisks can overwhelm it. That's got to be the reason why the BCs get the new Air to Ground ability.

Anyways I like the Banshee's look, even if it's not as sharp as the Wraith.

 

I didn't really like the design for the wraith so I'm not missing it. I think the banshee looks awesome and gives terrans a low cost air to ground force.

 

First, I want you all to look at this,
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb2/divinebaboon/Reaperminebig.jpg

Now, you all see the probes, right? What about the circular thingy with the light bars around it? Notice how its right under the Banshee? So, I was thinking, maybe the Banshee can drop mines. That would be pretty cool, and a player could do alot of damage with a drive-by mine drop.

 

Reaperminebig.jpg...........

So far the unit that we know that can lay mines is the reaper, I'm assuming that's what it is.

 

I thought they had to put mines on the buildings. Did that change?

 

I don't think it was only on buildings, but I'm not sure as the details we have so far about the mines seem vague. But nontheless, the notion of air dropping mines seems a little unlikely.

 

maybe a reaper ran in, dropped a bomb, then went back to formation. or died.

 

Or maybe he decided to go Kamikaze for the will of Terran God?

 

Sounds like a wraith but minus the crappy ground attack

Now the "wraith" unit for terran will actually be a decent raider even without cloak.

 

cluster bombs would be pretty tight, but then as you said you could just cloak tons of them then sneek them in to destroy everything

 

I think it would be nice if they had a second skill like dropping paratroopers that float down and shoot from the sky. Then they could attack zerglings before getting attacked, but then scourges would be able to smash into your marines. That way it would ballance out the whole phase prism zealots being digitizing into your base. (Kind of)
http://www.gamemeca.com/game_data/preview/2050/teran-3.jpg
Oh yeah and the banshees shoot missles (As in the self propelled ones) not bombs.

 

I don't have a problem with it, but I was just wondering how Banshees are supposed to fly around in a vacuum environment when their method of propulsion seems to be the same as many of today's helicopters and other rotor powered aircraft. What do you think will be Blizzard's explanation for this? Super gravity repelling rotor blades? ;D

 

It's not the ship that repels the blades that repel the ship, it's the ship that repels the blades, and the blades repel the universe! O_O (lol)

 

It probably has an alternate method like hover pads around the rims of the blades, blades are probably only for planets with an atmosphere.

 

Well put ghost, but im sure there is "interstellar" propulsion systems for all aircraft. You really need efficiency in space, its quite big

 

they fly around in space the same way mutalisks fly in space. and guardians fly... in general.

 

I lost my Starcraft manual years ago, but I think it had an explanation of how Mutalisks and Guardians are able to fly through space. Can somebody please confirm this? All I remember from it is that the Overmind was able to absorb a species of alien that was able to fly through vacuum naturally. Maybe they mixed and matched the DNA of several species to get the Mutalisk.

 

First off, welcome to the forum spark. And I would like to know how banshees fly in space too. Maybe they have to be in the dock of giant Drop Ship or something. It makes more sense that banshees can hover. Wraiths just used to stay in one spot if you didn't tell them to do anything. How can they stay up without moving? No thrusters below them or anything.